Maribeth will set up wiki area for us. [STS Council was asked to contribute ideas to the wiki. Jenna Ryan (jryan1@lsu.edu) offered to help us.]

Maribeth will set up wiki area for us. [STS Council was asked to contribute ideas to the wiki. Jenna Ryan (jryan1@lsu.edu) offered to help us.]

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 Alcohol producer?

 Alcohol producer?

 Local publishing companies and/or vendors?

 Local publishing companies and/or vendors?

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We should check to see what companies are headquartered in the NO area and consider contacting their librarians for more information.

We should check to see what companies are headquartered in the NO area and consider contacting their librarians for more information.

Revision as of 14:13, 9 January 2009

STS will be celebrating its 50th year as an ACRL section in 2011. We will celebrate this milestone at the ALA Annual Meeting in New Orleans, June 23-29. Members of the task force are listed below. We will use this space to collect our ideas for the celebration, and welcome input from STS members who are familiar with the venue or just have a good idea to share!

We should check to see what companies are headquartered in the NO area and consider contacting their librarians for more information.

Field-Trip ideas:
 Hot sauce tour
 Wetlands field trip
 Corp of Engineers?
We should keep a list of our discarded ideas as “science tourism” to send to members via STS-L.

Celebration:
 We should consider having a party rather than a dinner on Sunday night. We may want to consider partnering with the zoo or the aquarium to host this event.

Speaker ideas:
 “science of gambling”
 “science of zombies”

Questions for STS Council:

1. When will ALA choose its conference theme? [Too late for us to use it.]
2. How was the 40th celebration handled?
3. Can we ask ACRL to co-ordinate “ask” for fundraising after National 2009? [Contact Julia Gelfand. She is on the ACRL Budget Committee and has helpful information. I believe she also helped plan the 40th celebration.]